Articles by Lauren Krueger

Sculpture Milwaukee selected three UW-Milwaukee students to create public art installations for the April 21 grand opening of the Third Street Market Hall. Students discuss their process with Media Milwaukee reporter Lauren Krueger.

Black mothers and their babies are dying at alarming rates in Milwaukee. Doulas and birth workers are trying to prevent loss in the community. Doulas are people trained to provide emotional and physical support to mothers before, during and after childbirth. Lakeeta Watts, a Milwaukee doula and health worker, founded Essentially Empowered Inc. to provide […]

Press members and patrons flocked around the bar at the Newsroom Pub to order a drink from a journalist this past Thursday for the Milwaukee Press Club’s annual Meet the Media event. The ‘celebrity bartenders’ poured beer and cocktails in honor of the MPC’s 137th anniversary. Meet the Media, created in 2006 by former club […]

WAUKESHA – Waukesha Christmas parade defendant Darrell Brooks Jr. began began Monday’s legal proceedings by apologizing to everyone in the courtroom for his behavior in the first week of the trial. Darrell Brooks faces 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, after allegedly driving his SUV through the Waukesha Christmas Parade in November […]

An October Marquette University Law School Poll study found that among likely voters, Sen. Ron Johnson has 52% support and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has 46%, while the governor’s race is even closer, and voter turnout may be the tipping point. Eighty-four percent of Republicans say they are absolutely certain to vote or have already […]

WAUKESHA – Waukesha Police Detective Thomas Casey recounted pounding on the hood of Waukesha Christmas parade suspect Darrell Brooks’ SUV, begging him to stop, at the preliminary hearing on Friday after County Court Commissioner Kevin Costello announced 72 new charges. Costello spent seven minutes listing each new count to Brooks, who sat in a red […]

Marissa Ziefle was prepared for college. Her college-prep high school drilled academic excellence into students. When she started at UWM, college felt even easier than high school. But as she progressed, Ziefle grappled with a question that millions of students ask themselves each semester: What do I want to do with my life? What followed […]

At first, Nancy was scared. Her thoughts raced: it’s going to get out of control again. We’re never going to move past this. The 44-year-old daycare director was reminded of the pandemic’s effects by the teary eyes of parents picking up their children after work at the hospital. But Nancy Halaka doesn’t live in fear. […]

Maddie McGraw, 20, is a full-time time student at UW-Madison. Her new job at the school’s COVID-19 Isolation Housing Center is a stark contrast to the solitary landscaping position she held at the start of the pandemic. Though this time has brought many changes, she appreciates the break landscaping gave her and has found new […]